Cocaine Money
90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine:
Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine.
“When I was a young kid, my mom told me the dirtiest thing in the world is money,” said the researcher, Yuegang Zuo, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. “Mom is always right.”
The cocaine spreads from the money processing equipment at banks and binds to the green ink in our bills.